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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by VidKid369 on April 27, 2023, 03:22:24 pm »Hey, Boo! So, just an update. I'm in a chipper mood today.
So I just got a Nintendo Switch OLED. I'm having a lot of DEEP THOUGHTS now. I was always a Nintendo kid growing up back then before I knew about company loyalty or console wars. I feel more at home on Nintendo. I dunno, it's funny? It made me think about how I like or enjoy text-heavy RPGs on the PlayStation. This kinda brought me back to just want to bounce and jump-around on things without a thought in my head! I kinda wanna maybe try some new games out.
I don't want ppl to think I'm a hardcore gamer in my cave reading long scripts...
But, anyway. I digress.
So I just got a Nintendo Switch OLED. I'm having a lot of DEEP THOUGHTS now. I was always a Nintendo kid growing up back then before I knew about company loyalty or console wars. I feel more at home on Nintendo. I dunno, it's funny? It made me think about how I like or enjoy text-heavy RPGs on the PlayStation. This kinda brought me back to just want to bounce and jump-around on things without a thought in my head! I kinda wanna maybe try some new games out.
I don't want ppl to think I'm a hardcore gamer in my cave reading long scripts...
But, anyway. I digress.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by VidKid369 on April 25, 2023, 04:03:40 pm »Hey, Boo. Oop- Late reply.
Tbh, I'd take any LUNAR game they could possibly throw out there rn! :p I'm not one to bite the hand that feeds me!
I can kinda see Prompto as like born in a lab cause he's like fair skinned and blond. It would only make sense! I've been thinking about Final Fantasy XV a lot the last few days after ever since beating it. I guess, I really liked it a lot. After I get done with an intial run of DQ11, I was thinking about going back to FFXV and getting the platinum. And then in the Trophies Menu I see all the DLC, and then the Royal Version... I'm kinda interested in them.
Yeah, I'd had heard about the book.
Sounds like you really know your FFXV I really like the new games (especially this one!), but I find myself going back and reminiscing about the older FF titles too, which kinda makes me think about FF PixelRemaster. The graphics are just so good for the PS4 games.
DQ11 is really good like really, really good... I like how it's so traditional JRPG like: You find a Stick. Attacks enemy with Dagger. Lol! It's just so simple, at first. That's what I really like about it it's like believable if you're from a smalltown village, in the boonies and there's animals in the woods coming in to eat your farm. It's not SO far-out there like most fantasies!
Oh, I liked delivering speeches in community college. My professor said I have a monotone voice though. I dunno if it's because I'm Asian or on the computer a lot. Yeah, I'm thinking about making another batch of masala tomorrow I want my parents to try it out, ...
Tbh, I'd take any LUNAR game they could possibly throw out there rn! :p I'm not one to bite the hand that feeds me!
I can kinda see Prompto as like born in a lab cause he's like fair skinned and blond. It would only make sense! I've been thinking about Final Fantasy XV a lot the last few days after ever since beating it. I guess, I really liked it a lot. After I get done with an intial run of DQ11, I was thinking about going back to FFXV and getting the platinum. And then in the Trophies Menu I see all the DLC, and then the Royal Version... I'm kinda interested in them.
Yeah, I'd had heard about the book.
Sounds like you really know your FFXV I really like the new games (especially this one!), but I find myself going back and reminiscing about the older FF titles too, which kinda makes me think about FF PixelRemaster. The graphics are just so good for the PS4 games.
DQ11 is really good like really, really good... I like how it's so traditional JRPG like: You find a Stick. Attacks enemy with Dagger. Lol! It's just so simple, at first. That's what I really like about it it's like believable if you're from a smalltown village, in the boonies and there's animals in the woods coming in to eat your farm. It's not SO far-out there like most fantasies!
Oh, I liked delivering speeches in community college. My professor said I have a monotone voice though. I dunno if it's because I'm Asian or on the computer a lot. Yeah, I'm thinking about making another batch of masala tomorrow I want my parents to try it out, ...
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on April 23, 2023, 11:05:59 pm »Regarding hypothetical LUNAR games...
Yeah, I just like subverting expectations. Figured it would be good to do yet another staple turned on it's head. And I figured one of the two brothers would look more like Lemina, the other more like Mia. Haha.
This is a fun idea! I definitely want to see the Blue Star, and having Lucia again would be cool. Maybe she has to rescue Hiro, or perhaps it's before Hiro gets there?
Okay, so the DLC in the game is pretty much all backstory. One follows Gladio when he meets up with Gilgamesh; another follows Prompto when he was separated from the group (and deals with his origins -- turns out he's a clone); another one follows Ignis and does actually give an optional story path with an optional ending had he and Noctis chosen a different path.
Where things REALLY get interesting was the last DLC, which was a prequel that followed Ardyn and the origins of both his character and the starscourge. It explained everything with him and his brother (who looks a bit like Noctis) and essentially establishes the founding of the Lucis dynasty and the Royal Arms.
There were three other DLCs that were coming out... One would have followed Aranea as she adopts and trains an orphan during the time jump... Another would have followed Lunafreya, who is revived and brought back to life... And the final DLC would have been a massive "true ending" that actually followed Noctis, Aranea, Lunafreya, and Ardyn teaming up together to take on the source of the starscourge itself: the evil dragon king Bahamut. It would have ended with both Noctis and Lunafreya surviving and getting married, and it would have been the real ending to the story.
It really, really sucks that we only got the Ardyn setup for the team-up. They did end up taking the scenarios and writing them into a book called The Dawn of the Future:
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-XV-Dawn-Future/dp/1646090004
It's canon and still exists, it's just not in the video game format, which is a huge bummer.
Nice dude! Glad it's scratching that itch. Let me know how your experience goes. I'd like to play it one day.
Well, I'm prepping for a presentation I have to give tomorrow morning. It's to my entire department, which is about 300 people. I'm quite nervous, haha... Glad you're doing well, man. Save me a plate of that tikka masala! Haha!
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-One thing that stuck out are the male Ausas. Usually Vane is always run by all females so I thought that was a little random/unbelievable not to say male Ausas can't exist but in the games they've never had any.
Yeah, I just like subverting expectations. Figured it would be good to do yet another staple turned on it's head. And I figured one of the two brothers would look more like Lemina, the other more like Mia. Haha.
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Um. I've only come up with a few points for what I wanna see in LUNAR 3: I think the game will definitely take place on the Blue Star as it has been restored after the events in EBC so I see you traveling there. I think Lucia can finally be a playable character (as opposed to AI) and she'll be the first main female character for the LUNAR franchise like Terra to Final Fantasy. I think it'll probably be some fanservice-of-game like FFX-2 was with just girls romping around the world.
This is a fun idea! I definitely want to see the Blue Star, and having Lucia again would be cool. Maybe she has to rescue Hiro, or perhaps it's before Hiro gets there?
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I liked the cinematics mostly of those scenes where Noctis and Lunafreya were like flowing around in the water flowers. I thought the story was nice. I enjoyed the bro-ness. Sucks that Lunafreya died but she was there in the ending which I didn't get? I haven't done any of the DLC but I kinda wanted to go back to the main game and do all the trophies while it's still fresh.
Okay, so the DLC in the game is pretty much all backstory. One follows Gladio when he meets up with Gilgamesh; another follows Prompto when he was separated from the group (and deals with his origins -- turns out he's a clone); another one follows Ignis and does actually give an optional story path with an optional ending had he and Noctis chosen a different path.
Where things REALLY get interesting was the last DLC, which was a prequel that followed Ardyn and the origins of both his character and the starscourge. It explained everything with him and his brother (who looks a bit like Noctis) and essentially establishes the founding of the Lucis dynasty and the Royal Arms.
There were three other DLCs that were coming out... One would have followed Aranea as she adopts and trains an orphan during the time jump... Another would have followed Lunafreya, who is revived and brought back to life... And the final DLC would have been a massive "true ending" that actually followed Noctis, Aranea, Lunafreya, and Ardyn teaming up together to take on the source of the starscourge itself: the evil dragon king Bahamut. It would have ended with both Noctis and Lunafreya surviving and getting married, and it would have been the real ending to the story.
It really, really sucks that we only got the Ardyn setup for the team-up. They did end up taking the scenarios and writing them into a book called The Dawn of the Future:
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-XV-Dawn-Future/dp/1646090004
It's canon and still exists, it's just not in the video game format, which is a huge bummer.
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DQ11: I kinda really like it. It's more up-my-alley than FFXV like smalltown country bumpkin farmboy who finally leaves the gates of his small village which's the only thing he's known his whole life to embark on a big adventure. I like that simple shit. I quite like that it's such a throwback traditional, classic, old-school, turn-based, linear JRPG.
Nice dude! Glad it's scratching that itch. Let me know how your experience goes. I'd like to play it one day.
Well, I'm prepping for a presentation I have to give tomorrow morning. It's to my entire department, which is about 300 people. I'm quite nervous, haha... Glad you're doing well, man. Save me a plate of that tikka masala! Haha!
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Kajar Laboratories / Re: Thread for a Proposal for a new Fan Game. Chrono Trigger II: The Battle for Time
« Last post by CH86 on April 22, 2023, 05:05:01 am »It's been a couple years since I posted here so I try to revive this topic by posting new concept ideas.
Regarding the guardia line and time periods theirs relevance are as follows:
7600 BC = start of guardia line
1 AD = start of Guardia Kingdom.
Regarding the guardia line and time periods theirs relevance are as follows:
7600 BC = start of guardia line
1 AD = start of Guardia Kingdom.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by VidKid369 on April 21, 2023, 03:08:36 pm »Ooh. Boo, how can anyone follow that up? :p I had to have a few beers before I was ready to tackle your post, but I have a few responses:
-One thing that stuck out are the male Ausas. Usually Vane is always run by all females so I thought that was a little random/unbelievable not to say male Ausas can't exist but in the games they've never had any.
-I liked pretty much your whole story. I'm a HUGE LUNAR fan and I've never written any fanfics of any sort. In fact, I only just thought of what I wanted to see in a possible LUNAR 3 when you poked-and-prodded me about it. I almost never really ruminate about LUNAR, I just re-play the games whenever I can and memorize the basic lore and try to commit it to memory. I don't really think of "what if?" scenarios just trying to get the canon right.
Um. I've only come up with a few points for what I wanna see in LUNAR 3: I think the game will definitely take place on the Blue Star as it has been restored after the events in EBC so I see you traveling there. I think Lucia can finally be a playable character (as opposed to AI) and she'll be the first main female character for the LUNAR franchise like Terra to Final Fantasy. I think it'll probably be some fanservice-of-game like FFX-2 was with just girls romping around the world.
That's really all I thought of.
FFXV: I liked the cinematics mostly of those scenes where Noctis and Lunafreya were like flowing around in the water flowers. I thought the story was nice. I enjoyed the bro-ness. Sucks that Lunafreya died but she was there in the ending which I didn't get? I haven't done any of the DLC but I kinda wanted to go back to the main game and do all the trophies while it's still fresh.
DQ11: I kinda really like it. It's more up-my-alley than FFXV like smalltown country bumpkin farmboy who finally leaves the gates of his small village which's the only thing he's known his whole life to embark on a big adventure. I like that simple shit. I quite like that it's such a throwback traditional, classic, old-school, turn-based, linear JRPG.
Tikka masala: I love this stuff. I was cooking with one of the maids so it was a two-person effort but I was mostly leading. I used a microplane to get rid of the fibers in the ginger before pounding it in the mortar & pestel with the garlic. I used a lot of oil (I like oily foods) and cooked it, then added all of the spices I learned to go easy on the chili powder this time, then added the tomato paste, then the tomato sauce and I added a LOT of coconut milk to get it to turn a real orange color. Then I just dumped in the potatoes, green peas and cubes of cheese. And I let it boil a lot to thicken it up. It was SO easy to make at home to think I used to pay to get it from a restaurant? I made so much and I plan on eating it everyday for a while. I didn't make any naan I just eat it with rice.
-One thing that stuck out are the male Ausas. Usually Vane is always run by all females so I thought that was a little random/unbelievable not to say male Ausas can't exist but in the games they've never had any.
-I liked pretty much your whole story. I'm a HUGE LUNAR fan and I've never written any fanfics of any sort. In fact, I only just thought of what I wanted to see in a possible LUNAR 3 when you poked-and-prodded me about it. I almost never really ruminate about LUNAR, I just re-play the games whenever I can and memorize the basic lore and try to commit it to memory. I don't really think of "what if?" scenarios just trying to get the canon right.
Um. I've only come up with a few points for what I wanna see in LUNAR 3: I think the game will definitely take place on the Blue Star as it has been restored after the events in EBC so I see you traveling there. I think Lucia can finally be a playable character (as opposed to AI) and she'll be the first main female character for the LUNAR franchise like Terra to Final Fantasy. I think it'll probably be some fanservice-of-game like FFX-2 was with just girls romping around the world.
That's really all I thought of.
FFXV: I liked the cinematics mostly of those scenes where Noctis and Lunafreya were like flowing around in the water flowers. I thought the story was nice. I enjoyed the bro-ness. Sucks that Lunafreya died but she was there in the ending which I didn't get? I haven't done any of the DLC but I kinda wanted to go back to the main game and do all the trophies while it's still fresh.
DQ11: I kinda really like it. It's more up-my-alley than FFXV like smalltown country bumpkin farmboy who finally leaves the gates of his small village which's the only thing he's known his whole life to embark on a big adventure. I like that simple shit. I quite like that it's such a throwback traditional, classic, old-school, turn-based, linear JRPG.
Tikka masala: I love this stuff. I was cooking with one of the maids so it was a two-person effort but I was mostly leading. I used a microplane to get rid of the fibers in the ginger before pounding it in the mortar & pestel with the garlic. I used a lot of oil (I like oily foods) and cooked it, then added all of the spices I learned to go easy on the chili powder this time, then added the tomato paste, then the tomato sauce and I added a LOT of coconut milk to get it to turn a real orange color. Then I just dumped in the potatoes, green peas and cubes of cheese. And I let it boil a lot to thicken it up. It was SO easy to make at home to think I used to pay to get it from a restaurant? I made so much and I plan on eating it everyday for a while. I didn't make any naan I just eat it with rice.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on April 20, 2023, 07:13:53 pm »As for life... I'll have to come back and edit this post. I'm about to take my daughter to volleyball. 
EDIT: Back!
So dang, you already finished FFXV?! I know there's quite a bit of post-game content, so enjoy. I started it the other day but I've put in maybe 2 hours, so I'm still in chapter 1 doing the hunt missions and leveling up Noctis' fishing ability.
What was your favorite part? What did you think of the story? Did you do and of the DLC?
I thought the Definitive Version was mostly the same as Standard, it just included some additional QoL updates and additional (optional) story content. Although the S version on the Switch has lower res textures for obvious reasons. I dunno, though. I own the Switch version but have yet to play it. Let me know what you think once you get into it!
Nice! I work with a lot of Indian guys, so we tend to eat a lot of Indian food around the office. I definitely love tikka masala, though. I've made it a few times at home, but my family would rather I make a red or panang Thai curry instead. Using potatoes is a genius idea, though; I'll have to try it!
Who makes it better -- you or the house staff?
There's not really much going on in my life. HR did decide to fire that guy, so we've been having to pull a little extra weight to make up for the loss of manpower. It's also been amazing not having to go into the office every single day; I had three weeks of that, and it was absolutely brutal. I'm also on a little bit of a diet, just because I've put on about 8 pounds since Christmas. No fun. :/
EDIT: Back!
So dang, you already finished FFXV?! I know there's quite a bit of post-game content, so enjoy. I started it the other day but I've put in maybe 2 hours, so I'm still in chapter 1 doing the hunt missions and leveling up Noctis' fishing ability.
What was your favorite part? What did you think of the story? Did you do and of the DLC?
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...while I wait for DQ11 to be delivered I'm gonna play it with a friend of mine on Discord. Apparently the S - Definitive Version has dumbed down graphics for its release for the Switch and it's there also for the PS4 version, so I opted to get the Standard Version.
I thought the Definitive Version was mostly the same as Standard, it just included some additional QoL updates and additional (optional) story content. Although the S version on the Switch has lower res textures for obvious reasons. I dunno, though. I own the Switch version but have yet to play it. Let me know what you think once you get into it!
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As for me, life's going ok. I made tikka masala the other day, I have some leftovers I'm about to heat up and eat, it turned out pretty good and it was so easy to make once you do it for the first time. It's turning out to be one of my favorite dishes to eat... The recipe calls for chicken but I just made it with potatoes.
Nice! I work with a lot of Indian guys, so we tend to eat a lot of Indian food around the office. I definitely love tikka masala, though. I've made it a few times at home, but my family would rather I make a red or panang Thai curry instead. Using potatoes is a genius idea, though; I'll have to try it!
Who makes it better -- you or the house staff?
There's not really much going on in my life. HR did decide to fire that guy, so we've been having to pull a little extra weight to make up for the loss of manpower. It's also been amazing not having to go into the office every single day; I had three weeks of that, and it was absolutely brutal. I'm also on a little bit of a diet, just because I've put on about 8 pounds since Christmas. No fun. :/
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by Boo the Gentleman Caller on April 20, 2023, 07:12:58 pm »Welp, I finally finished LUNAR 2 on Sunday! Or was it Monday? Either way, I finished it!
I really do love this series, and I wish that it was picked back up. My only fear is that they would change up the gameplay too much, which I dunno, I find the current system charming. Dragon Song was far too different and lost a lot of what made the previous LUNAR games so good.
I originally meant to just write out a few plots / story beats / combat elements that I'd like to see, but it quickly evolved into a full-fledged fanfic plot. I'm sorry, and you don't have to read it, haha...
So here's my thought on a potential sequel story...
First, some background: SILVER STAR HARMONY's prologue explored what it called the HERESY WAR, which was the adventure of Dragonmaster Dyne, Ghaleon, Mel de Alkirk, and Lemia Ausa. This new scenario showed their final battle against the FIVE PRINCES OF THE BLACK STAR, eldritch horrors that were allied with the villain EIPHEL to steal the powers of Althena. As we know, this adventure ended with Goddess Althena becoming human and leaving the world without a proper deity.
The story picks up 300 years after Silver Star and 700 years before Eternal Blue...
It follows a blue-haired warrior, GALE, who is serving in a backwater outpost on the edge of the FRONTIER. His best friend is the prince of the now-nation of Pao, PRINCE ERRANT GRAY, a trouble-maker that often gets the two into trouble -- which is soon revealed to be why the two are being punished and force to serve in this backwater location. Errant is a capable swordsman and more skilled than Gale, but he is arrogant, selfish, and while not evil, he isn't a very good friend.
Rumors have been circulating that mysterious masked figures, called SCIONS, have been visiting various kingdoms promising wealth and magical artifacts in exchange for political cooperation. One of these figures, the SCION OF EHTRIC, has come to the Pao nation and is meeting with KING ZEPHYR GRAY.
Through a series of events, Gale and Errant end up back in Pao's capital and Errant steals a magical relic from the Scion. He force Gale to try it on, and it's revealed to be a magical ring that binds itself to Gale's hand. The ring allows Gale to summon a magical black blade at will and grants him new sword art skills that make him a powerful swordsman - even better than Prince Errant himself. However, King Zypher, tired of their antics, sends them out of the kingdom and to the magical city of VANE to find an enchantment to remove the ring.
After leaving the nation of Pao, the two pass through the FOREST OF ILLUSION and get separated by moving trees of the forest, and Gale finds an abandoned laboratory. Deep within it he finds a beautiful, sleeping woman with jet-black hair, who has been frozen in stasis for centuries. Gale awakes her to learn her name is AMARIS, but she has amnesia and remembers nothing about herself. She also hears a mysterious hears a song that is calling out to her. Gale convinces her to accompany him to Vane, and upon leaving the forest they find Prince Errant, who rejoins the party. He expresses jealousy that Gale has both acquired a powerful magic relic and a beautiful woman.
The trio is accosted by the Scion of Ehtric, who demands both the magical ring and Amaris. He expresses that "the ring was meant for someone else, King Zypher." Since the ring cannot be removed due to the enchantment, the Scion attacks them to take off Gale's hand instead. Despite the party's best efforts, their power isn't enough to defeat the Scion, and they are defeated...
...before the Scion can strike Gale down, however, the trio is rescued by a mysterious, WHITE-HAIRED WARRIOR. He defeats the Scion (who escapes) and warns that both Gale and Amaris are in grave danger. He is annoyed that Gale woke Amaris up, and has been trying to protect her "for ages" so she could awaken her latent powers. He expresses that Amaris' powers will one day be needed to stop the Scions, who are actually evil, corrupted men serving the Five Princes of the Black Star. Last, this mysterious warrior encourages Gale to get to Vane quickly -- he worries that the the powers of his magical ring come with a terrible cost. This white-haired warrior (who is later revealed to be Nall) then runs off on his own mission.
The group makes a pitstop in ILUK, where they meet a beautiful inventor named FORSS ALBRIGHT. Forss joins the party and uses her inventions to essentially create magic-like effects. Despite not having any actual magic ability, she is the spellcaster in this journey. Forss builds them a hot air balloon to hasten their journey to Vane, but the journey is short-lived and they end up crashing in the MERYOD SWAMP.
After reaching the sinking village of MERYOD, the group meets another party member, FALION AUSA, one of the two premiers of the MAGIC GUILD of Vane. He explains that his father, the leader of the Magic Guild, recently died and made his two young sons their new leaders. Falion has very limited magical ability and has no interest leading the Guild, so he ran away from home. Despite these events, he agrees to help the party travel to Vane.
The party has several other adventures while traveling to reach the Magic Guild of Vane. Now a complete party, we have Gale, our sword-wielding hero; Amaris a mixture of healing and attack spells; Prince Errant a physical attacker with both ranged and non-ranged attacks; Forss, the technology-wielding "battlemage"; and Falion, a physical attacker with a few power-up spells.
They eventually reach Vane, where they meet Falion's twin brother, LUMOS AUSA. Lumos was worried about Falion and begs him to come home, as they are stronger together, but Falion refuses. Regardless of events here, the Magic Guild's council are able to study Gale's magic ring and reveal that the ring is made ancient magic from the Dark Star and the ring cannot be removed without the powers of the four dragons... which we learn have been missing from the world since the events of Silver Star.
Thus, the heroes are forced to try and locate the four dragons. The party first travels to try to find the White Dragon. On their travels, the party continues encountering the evil Scions, who are revealed to be gifting similar powerful relics (with dark secrets) to the leaders of Meribia and other countries. The goal is that the artifacts gifted to the leaders will eventually corrupt them and turn them evil, and no nation on LUNAR will have leadership that can help rise to stop the Five Princes of the Dark Star when they enact their evil plot. While on these adventures, the Scions try to recruit Prince Errant, who has slowly been harboring a growing jealousy over Gale. In Meribia, they eventually succeed, and Errant turns into a villain and leaves the party.
Upon finally crossing the ocean and reaching the White Dragon Cave, they find no sign of a dragon and decide to find either the blue or red dragon. It's a small branching storyline with only slightly different events, but regardless, their efforts are ultimately in vain, and they fail to find the other dragon.
Feeling confused and frustrated at the disappearance of the four dragons, however, they end encountering the white-haired warrior again, who reveals himself to be the white dragon, NALL. Nall explains that after the events of Silver Star, the dragons lost their powers and were forced permanently into their human body forms. Thus, the Nall of this game is currently just a normal human without any of his transformation abilities or magical spells. He joins the party (replacing Prince Errant) and explains that if they can find the four dragons and take them to the fifth STAR DRAGON, they may be able to harness the powers of the Blue Star (where Althena's lingering magic is slowly healing the planet so that humans may one day return) and revive the powers of the four dragon's.
The party ends up tracking down the blue dragon, CYAN, who is happily living life as a human in Meribia. They then manage to locate the red dragon, AMELIA, who is also living as a human (and is guarding a red dragon egg - hinted at being baby Ruby). Amelia explains more about the nature of the dragons and their offspring. She also explains that the black dragon, RUBEUS, died at the Grindery during the events of Silver Star. No black dragon has been seen since, although per the nature of dragons, a replacement dragon would have been magically created before Rubeus had died.
Nall and Amelia then reveal that the shadow dragon has been with them all along: the black dragon is actually Amaris, who was hatched/born before the events of Silver Star and was being studied (in her human form) by the evil scientist, Taben. However, Taben was defeated and his hidden laboratory was lost in time, Amaris with it. This explains the song she has been hearing since awakening - it is Luna's song from Silver Star, and it is the magical song of Goddess Althena guiding her to embracing her dragonic heritage as the black dragon.
Having found all four dragons, the group locates and then climbs the Star Dragon Tower, where the Star Dragon challenges their dedication. Upon defeating him, he explains that he can create a bridge to the ruins of the Blue Star, where they may be able to find the lingering magic of Althena they need to revive the powers of the four dragons.
Just before they use the powers of the Star Dragon to travel to the Blue Star, the evil infection of Gale's magic ring is revealed to have almost entirely consumed Gale's soul - they're almost out of time!
They nevertheless travel to the Blue Star and explore the ancient ruins of a city that is very, very similar to modern-day Earth (it may even be Earth, who knows). There they are confronted by Prince Errant, now evil and imbued with dark powers from the Five Princes of the Dark Star. They manage to defeat him, however; the Five Princes then take back their power back from Prince Errant and belittle him, calling him weak and feeding his insecurities and his rivalry to Gale.
The party finds a crystal garden created by Goddess Althena when she left the Blue Star, where her lingering magic is slowly healing the Blue Star so that humans can one day return. They pick a crystal flower that contains her power and return to Lunar via the Star Dragon's power. Prince Errant begrudgingly goes with them.
Back in the Star Dragon Tower, Gale and Amaris attempt to use the magic of Althena to revive the four dragons, but find that the magic still isn't powerful enough to break the seal, only weaken it. The seal is weakened just enough so that Nall gains a few new battle abilities. Regardless, the four dragon's powers are being blocked by the Five Princes of the Dark Star, and thus the Princes must be defeated entirely - without the powers of the four dragons.
Before they can make their next move, however, Gale finally succumbs to the evil ring and collapses, before awakening as an evil Scion, now-imbued with powers gifted to him from the Five Princes of the Dark Star. The party fights him and tries to talk him out of it, and it is only with the combined efforts of Amaris and his friends that they are able to give him the strength to overcome the evil curse. Through the power of friendship and love, Gale is able to overcomes the darkness, focus, and...
...he chops off his own arm, severing the infected arm that wears the ring. This sacrifice causes the evil ring to lose it's power entirely. Prince Errant, still consumed by his own insecurities and wanting to regain the favor of the Dark Princes, betrays the party yet again and kidnaps Amaris and takes her to the Five Princes.
A short time passes, and Gale is despondent, thinking that he is weak and useless, and that he has failed Amaris. He has also lost his battle prowess and sword with the loss of the magic ring. However, his friends come to him and reveal that they have built him a new, mechanical replacement arm. This emboldens him, and despite his lack of ability, he resolves to save Amaris and save the world. Proud of his resolve, the Star Dragon then gives him a dragon relic of his own: the Ring of the Star Dragon. Gale equips it and essentially regains the powers he had from the evil relic, but this time his black sword is comprised of goodness and holy light.
The party stages a final assault against the Five Princes of the Dark Star, who are revealed to be trying to revive their king, the evil deity ZOPHAR. The party defeats the Five Princes, and Prince Errant is betrayed by the Five Princes and forced to become the living host to the soul of Zophar, allowing him an avatar to re-enter the world.
The heroes battle the Five Princes, defeat them, and then battles the Zophar-possed-Errant. As Zophar returns to his slumber, Errant dies (no redemption for him). Gale uses his Ring of the Star Dragon to deliver the final blow and re-seal Zophar away, rendering the relic useless (side note: the party will muse that they may have only delayed Zophar's revival (thus setting the stage for for Eternal Blue). In a way, the Five Princes succeeded, as this they are ultimately revealed to be what allowed Zophar to return to the world of LUNAR... it will just take ~700 years for him to reawaken.
With the Five Dark Princes of the Dark Star gone forever, the four dragons regain their powers and everyone celebrates... Gale is now celebrated as a hero and is invited to become a Knight in the nation of Pao by King Zypher, but he declines and decides to travel the world and maybe retire to Meribia (and run for mayor one day). Forss is invited by Lumos Ausa to join the Magic Guild of Vane, where she hopes to bridge the gap between magic and technology. Falion embraces his heritage and returns to the Magic Guild with Forss and his brother, Lumos, where together they'll help run the Magic Guild. Amaris embraces her heritage as the black dragon and decides to help bridge the gap between human and non-human (beastmen, dragons, etc).
A few random thoughts:
-It's clear I intentionally twist some series tropes on their head here. Gone is a goddess Althena proxy character, and there's no baby cat dragon. Errant is also a Nash proxy, as he turns against the party, but unlike Nash, he never redeems himself, showing that not all people can be saved.
-Since the lead protagonist, Gale, has blue hair, it's heavily implied that he is a descendant of Alex and Luna. In actuality, we learn that he is descended from Tempest and Fresca (and gained his blue hair from her bloodline). His name is the hint -- Gale, like a Tempest. Haha!
-Nall in this story is really depressed and nihilistic having had lived for several hundred years and having had to watch all of his friends eventually grow old and die, so we see him almost process that grief and steady his own emotions like we eventually see in Eternal Blue.
-There's no baby cat dragon that runs with the party this game, as the dragon that hangs with the party is Amaris. She sort of holds the role that Luna / Lucia played in previous games. At the end of the game she, of course, goes on to accept the mantle of being the black dragon. In the first draft of the story I also thought about her trying to become a dragonmaster and failing because she, herself, is revealed to be one of the four dragons, but I removed this as the powers of the dragonmaster are gone with the absence of Althena.
-I didn't explain it very well, but the Five Princes of the Dark Star are Eldritch horrors that are currently an enigma in lore, and in this game they're mostly pulling the strings while their Scions try to gain powers for Zophar's return. I made up the fact that they're trying to revive Zophar, so that's not canon, although they do exist -- we just don't know who/what/why.
-There's no overwhelming love story here, unfortunately. I thought it wouldn't quite work between Gale and Amaris, although I thought that it would be heavily implied, just never confirmed one way or another if their friendship is deeper or not.
-Phacia does appear in the story as an NPC, where she is now very old and long-lived (as part of the Vile tribe) and helps the party find the Star Dragon Tower. She is the only returning character from either Silver Star or Eternal Blue.
That's about it.
I really do love this series, and I wish that it was picked back up. My only fear is that they would change up the gameplay too much, which I dunno, I find the current system charming. Dragon Song was far too different and lost a lot of what made the previous LUNAR games so good.
I originally meant to just write out a few plots / story beats / combat elements that I'd like to see, but it quickly evolved into a full-fledged fanfic plot. I'm sorry, and you don't have to read it, haha...
So here's my thought on a potential sequel story...
First, some background: SILVER STAR HARMONY's prologue explored what it called the HERESY WAR, which was the adventure of Dragonmaster Dyne, Ghaleon, Mel de Alkirk, and Lemia Ausa. This new scenario showed their final battle against the FIVE PRINCES OF THE BLACK STAR, eldritch horrors that were allied with the villain EIPHEL to steal the powers of Althena. As we know, this adventure ended with Goddess Althena becoming human and leaving the world without a proper deity.
The story picks up 300 years after Silver Star and 700 years before Eternal Blue...
It follows a blue-haired warrior, GALE, who is serving in a backwater outpost on the edge of the FRONTIER. His best friend is the prince of the now-nation of Pao, PRINCE ERRANT GRAY, a trouble-maker that often gets the two into trouble -- which is soon revealed to be why the two are being punished and force to serve in this backwater location. Errant is a capable swordsman and more skilled than Gale, but he is arrogant, selfish, and while not evil, he isn't a very good friend.
Rumors have been circulating that mysterious masked figures, called SCIONS, have been visiting various kingdoms promising wealth and magical artifacts in exchange for political cooperation. One of these figures, the SCION OF EHTRIC, has come to the Pao nation and is meeting with KING ZEPHYR GRAY.
Through a series of events, Gale and Errant end up back in Pao's capital and Errant steals a magical relic from the Scion. He force Gale to try it on, and it's revealed to be a magical ring that binds itself to Gale's hand. The ring allows Gale to summon a magical black blade at will and grants him new sword art skills that make him a powerful swordsman - even better than Prince Errant himself. However, King Zypher, tired of their antics, sends them out of the kingdom and to the magical city of VANE to find an enchantment to remove the ring.
After leaving the nation of Pao, the two pass through the FOREST OF ILLUSION and get separated by moving trees of the forest, and Gale finds an abandoned laboratory. Deep within it he finds a beautiful, sleeping woman with jet-black hair, who has been frozen in stasis for centuries. Gale awakes her to learn her name is AMARIS, but she has amnesia and remembers nothing about herself. She also hears a mysterious hears a song that is calling out to her. Gale convinces her to accompany him to Vane, and upon leaving the forest they find Prince Errant, who rejoins the party. He expresses jealousy that Gale has both acquired a powerful magic relic and a beautiful woman.
The trio is accosted by the Scion of Ehtric, who demands both the magical ring and Amaris. He expresses that "the ring was meant for someone else, King Zypher." Since the ring cannot be removed due to the enchantment, the Scion attacks them to take off Gale's hand instead. Despite the party's best efforts, their power isn't enough to defeat the Scion, and they are defeated...
...before the Scion can strike Gale down, however, the trio is rescued by a mysterious, WHITE-HAIRED WARRIOR. He defeats the Scion (who escapes) and warns that both Gale and Amaris are in grave danger. He is annoyed that Gale woke Amaris up, and has been trying to protect her "for ages" so she could awaken her latent powers. He expresses that Amaris' powers will one day be needed to stop the Scions, who are actually evil, corrupted men serving the Five Princes of the Black Star. Last, this mysterious warrior encourages Gale to get to Vane quickly -- he worries that the the powers of his magical ring come with a terrible cost. This white-haired warrior (who is later revealed to be Nall) then runs off on his own mission.
The group makes a pitstop in ILUK, where they meet a beautiful inventor named FORSS ALBRIGHT. Forss joins the party and uses her inventions to essentially create magic-like effects. Despite not having any actual magic ability, she is the spellcaster in this journey. Forss builds them a hot air balloon to hasten their journey to Vane, but the journey is short-lived and they end up crashing in the MERYOD SWAMP.
After reaching the sinking village of MERYOD, the group meets another party member, FALION AUSA, one of the two premiers of the MAGIC GUILD of Vane. He explains that his father, the leader of the Magic Guild, recently died and made his two young sons their new leaders. Falion has very limited magical ability and has no interest leading the Guild, so he ran away from home. Despite these events, he agrees to help the party travel to Vane.
The party has several other adventures while traveling to reach the Magic Guild of Vane. Now a complete party, we have Gale, our sword-wielding hero; Amaris a mixture of healing and attack spells; Prince Errant a physical attacker with both ranged and non-ranged attacks; Forss, the technology-wielding "battlemage"; and Falion, a physical attacker with a few power-up spells.
They eventually reach Vane, where they meet Falion's twin brother, LUMOS AUSA. Lumos was worried about Falion and begs him to come home, as they are stronger together, but Falion refuses. Regardless of events here, the Magic Guild's council are able to study Gale's magic ring and reveal that the ring is made ancient magic from the Dark Star and the ring cannot be removed without the powers of the four dragons... which we learn have been missing from the world since the events of Silver Star.
Thus, the heroes are forced to try and locate the four dragons. The party first travels to try to find the White Dragon. On their travels, the party continues encountering the evil Scions, who are revealed to be gifting similar powerful relics (with dark secrets) to the leaders of Meribia and other countries. The goal is that the artifacts gifted to the leaders will eventually corrupt them and turn them evil, and no nation on LUNAR will have leadership that can help rise to stop the Five Princes of the Dark Star when they enact their evil plot. While on these adventures, the Scions try to recruit Prince Errant, who has slowly been harboring a growing jealousy over Gale. In Meribia, they eventually succeed, and Errant turns into a villain and leaves the party.
Upon finally crossing the ocean and reaching the White Dragon Cave, they find no sign of a dragon and decide to find either the blue or red dragon. It's a small branching storyline with only slightly different events, but regardless, their efforts are ultimately in vain, and they fail to find the other dragon.
Feeling confused and frustrated at the disappearance of the four dragons, however, they end encountering the white-haired warrior again, who reveals himself to be the white dragon, NALL. Nall explains that after the events of Silver Star, the dragons lost their powers and were forced permanently into their human body forms. Thus, the Nall of this game is currently just a normal human without any of his transformation abilities or magical spells. He joins the party (replacing Prince Errant) and explains that if they can find the four dragons and take them to the fifth STAR DRAGON, they may be able to harness the powers of the Blue Star (where Althena's lingering magic is slowly healing the planet so that humans may one day return) and revive the powers of the four dragon's.
The party ends up tracking down the blue dragon, CYAN, who is happily living life as a human in Meribia. They then manage to locate the red dragon, AMELIA, who is also living as a human (and is guarding a red dragon egg - hinted at being baby Ruby). Amelia explains more about the nature of the dragons and their offspring. She also explains that the black dragon, RUBEUS, died at the Grindery during the events of Silver Star. No black dragon has been seen since, although per the nature of dragons, a replacement dragon would have been magically created before Rubeus had died.
Nall and Amelia then reveal that the shadow dragon has been with them all along: the black dragon is actually Amaris, who was hatched/born before the events of Silver Star and was being studied (in her human form) by the evil scientist, Taben. However, Taben was defeated and his hidden laboratory was lost in time, Amaris with it. This explains the song she has been hearing since awakening - it is Luna's song from Silver Star, and it is the magical song of Goddess Althena guiding her to embracing her dragonic heritage as the black dragon.
Having found all four dragons, the group locates and then climbs the Star Dragon Tower, where the Star Dragon challenges their dedication. Upon defeating him, he explains that he can create a bridge to the ruins of the Blue Star, where they may be able to find the lingering magic of Althena they need to revive the powers of the four dragons.
Just before they use the powers of the Star Dragon to travel to the Blue Star, the evil infection of Gale's magic ring is revealed to have almost entirely consumed Gale's soul - they're almost out of time!
They nevertheless travel to the Blue Star and explore the ancient ruins of a city that is very, very similar to modern-day Earth (it may even be Earth, who knows). There they are confronted by Prince Errant, now evil and imbued with dark powers from the Five Princes of the Dark Star. They manage to defeat him, however; the Five Princes then take back their power back from Prince Errant and belittle him, calling him weak and feeding his insecurities and his rivalry to Gale.
The party finds a crystal garden created by Goddess Althena when she left the Blue Star, where her lingering magic is slowly healing the Blue Star so that humans can one day return. They pick a crystal flower that contains her power and return to Lunar via the Star Dragon's power. Prince Errant begrudgingly goes with them.
Back in the Star Dragon Tower, Gale and Amaris attempt to use the magic of Althena to revive the four dragons, but find that the magic still isn't powerful enough to break the seal, only weaken it. The seal is weakened just enough so that Nall gains a few new battle abilities. Regardless, the four dragon's powers are being blocked by the Five Princes of the Dark Star, and thus the Princes must be defeated entirely - without the powers of the four dragons.
Before they can make their next move, however, Gale finally succumbs to the evil ring and collapses, before awakening as an evil Scion, now-imbued with powers gifted to him from the Five Princes of the Dark Star. The party fights him and tries to talk him out of it, and it is only with the combined efforts of Amaris and his friends that they are able to give him the strength to overcome the evil curse. Through the power of friendship and love, Gale is able to overcomes the darkness, focus, and...
...he chops off his own arm, severing the infected arm that wears the ring. This sacrifice causes the evil ring to lose it's power entirely. Prince Errant, still consumed by his own insecurities and wanting to regain the favor of the Dark Princes, betrays the party yet again and kidnaps Amaris and takes her to the Five Princes.
A short time passes, and Gale is despondent, thinking that he is weak and useless, and that he has failed Amaris. He has also lost his battle prowess and sword with the loss of the magic ring. However, his friends come to him and reveal that they have built him a new, mechanical replacement arm. This emboldens him, and despite his lack of ability, he resolves to save Amaris and save the world. Proud of his resolve, the Star Dragon then gives him a dragon relic of his own: the Ring of the Star Dragon. Gale equips it and essentially regains the powers he had from the evil relic, but this time his black sword is comprised of goodness and holy light.
The party stages a final assault against the Five Princes of the Dark Star, who are revealed to be trying to revive their king, the evil deity ZOPHAR. The party defeats the Five Princes, and Prince Errant is betrayed by the Five Princes and forced to become the living host to the soul of Zophar, allowing him an avatar to re-enter the world.
The heroes battle the Five Princes, defeat them, and then battles the Zophar-possed-Errant. As Zophar returns to his slumber, Errant dies (no redemption for him). Gale uses his Ring of the Star Dragon to deliver the final blow and re-seal Zophar away, rendering the relic useless (side note: the party will muse that they may have only delayed Zophar's revival (thus setting the stage for for Eternal Blue). In a way, the Five Princes succeeded, as this they are ultimately revealed to be what allowed Zophar to return to the world of LUNAR... it will just take ~700 years for him to reawaken.
With the Five Dark Princes of the Dark Star gone forever, the four dragons regain their powers and everyone celebrates... Gale is now celebrated as a hero and is invited to become a Knight in the nation of Pao by King Zypher, but he declines and decides to travel the world and maybe retire to Meribia (and run for mayor one day). Forss is invited by Lumos Ausa to join the Magic Guild of Vane, where she hopes to bridge the gap between magic and technology. Falion embraces his heritage and returns to the Magic Guild with Forss and his brother, Lumos, where together they'll help run the Magic Guild. Amaris embraces her heritage as the black dragon and decides to help bridge the gap between human and non-human (beastmen, dragons, etc).
A few random thoughts:
-It's clear I intentionally twist some series tropes on their head here. Gone is a goddess Althena proxy character, and there's no baby cat dragon. Errant is also a Nash proxy, as he turns against the party, but unlike Nash, he never redeems himself, showing that not all people can be saved.
-Since the lead protagonist, Gale, has blue hair, it's heavily implied that he is a descendant of Alex and Luna. In actuality, we learn that he is descended from Tempest and Fresca (and gained his blue hair from her bloodline). His name is the hint -- Gale, like a Tempest. Haha!
-Nall in this story is really depressed and nihilistic having had lived for several hundred years and having had to watch all of his friends eventually grow old and die, so we see him almost process that grief and steady his own emotions like we eventually see in Eternal Blue.
-There's no baby cat dragon that runs with the party this game, as the dragon that hangs with the party is Amaris. She sort of holds the role that Luna / Lucia played in previous games. At the end of the game she, of course, goes on to accept the mantle of being the black dragon. In the first draft of the story I also thought about her trying to become a dragonmaster and failing because she, herself, is revealed to be one of the four dragons, but I removed this as the powers of the dragonmaster are gone with the absence of Althena.
-I didn't explain it very well, but the Five Princes of the Dark Star are Eldritch horrors that are currently an enigma in lore, and in this game they're mostly pulling the strings while their Scions try to gain powers for Zophar's return. I made up the fact that they're trying to revive Zophar, so that's not canon, although they do exist -- we just don't know who/what/why.
-There's no overwhelming love story here, unfortunately. I thought it wouldn't quite work between Gale and Amaris, although I thought that it would be heavily implied, just never confirmed one way or another if their friendship is deeper or not.
-Phacia does appear in the story as an NPC, where she is now very old and long-lived (as part of the Vile tribe) and helps the party find the Star Dragon Tower. She is the only returning character from either Silver Star or Eternal Blue.
That's about it.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by VidKid369 on April 20, 2023, 02:32:55 pm »Hey, Boo. So I beat FFXV. I'm surprised I beat it so quick in what seems like a week or a few days. :shrug: Overall I liked it though I liked the cinematics and I felt like I just enjoyed it towards the end. I'm just fucking around wid it now while I wait for DQ11 to be delivered I'm gonna play it with a friend of mine on Discord. Apparently the S - Definitive Version has dumbed down graphics for its release for the Switch and it's there also for the PS4 version, so I opted to get the Standard Version. :shrug: I kinda wanna window shop around online for another new game though that I can just play on the downlow...
As for me, life's going ok. I made tikka masala the other day, I have some leftovers I'm about to heat up and eat, it turned out pretty good and it was so easy to make once you do it for the first time. It's turning out to be one of my favorite dishes to eat... The recipe calls for chicken but I just made it with potatoes. For the next batch tomorrow, I'm gonna add green peas and cubes of cheese, as well... I gave some of the farm workers some and they said my recipe was delicious.
Rn, I'm catching up to the new season of Survivor I have to watch the newest ep tonight, just shopping around for games and just random IRL stuff...
Hope you're doing good, hoss!
As for me, life's going ok. I made tikka masala the other day, I have some leftovers I'm about to heat up and eat, it turned out pretty good and it was so easy to make once you do it for the first time. It's turning out to be one of my favorite dishes to eat... The recipe calls for chicken but I just made it with potatoes. For the next batch tomorrow, I'm gonna add green peas and cubes of cheese, as well... I gave some of the farm workers some and they said my recipe was delicious.
Rn, I'm catching up to the new season of Survivor I have to watch the newest ep tonight, just shopping around for games and just random IRL stuff...
Hope you're doing good, hoss!
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Chrono Trigger Modification / Re: Temporal Flux Plugins
« Last post by Zakyrus on April 18, 2023, 06:41:53 am »Quote
Zakyrus may be thinking of changing text color in the menus. I believe it would be possible to add control codes directly into item names to use existing colors already supported by the menu. I haven't fully explored this option though, since it's a rather limited use case.
Yes. Can we? I realize that there are more datas to be discovered.
HOWEVER, if we have a few more GLOSSY hacks (like this, and the tile editor!!) we'll revive this community ONCE MORE!!
~Z
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General Discussion / Re: Let's Play - LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete
« Last post by VidKid369 on April 17, 2023, 03:43:45 pm »Yeah, I'm not really into mobile gaming. I played Angry Birds for a little bit. I figure I try to focus on console just cause it's always worked for me. I need the T.V., my room and my chair.
I don't really fawn over much video game girls but I guess I like Lunafreya cause she's a blonde and the way they made her face looks just normal she can look a little weird but I think that's just normal. Yeah, I've seen some clips of FF7R and it looks great. I usually like most FF girls but I thought FF7 was always missing a good blonde. Unless they count Cloud in a dress?
I'm pretty into PS4 JRPG gameplaying right now and I have a few titles I'm looking at to possibly get:
-ever heard of Undertale? It's kinda like Earthbound but even weirder
-FFVIIR I kinda wanna play this
-DQ11S this looks good
-Atelier Sophie 2 I just wanna cont my Atelier journey onto the PS4
I'm just kinda home alone. My dogs keep me company when I'm in the room doing exercises/yoga and stuff. I've been writing in a notebook a lot just my inane thoughts. I'm still doing my "staying awake" thing I kinda just take a nap whenever I feel I need to. I hate having a schedule or 24-hr. routine. It seems so systematic. I kinda just do a lot of stuff at night when it's actually cool and I don't feel zapped by the heat and I kinda stay inside when the sun's out during the day and just go out when I have to supervise and talk to the workers. I love that my dogs keep me company all the time. I notice they're starting to be more affectionate towards me especially the other one boy dog. He stays outside and guards the place while the girl stays in my room in case something happens and her barking will wake me up.
I'm trying to teach one of the maids the kinds of foods I like so she can start to make it herself. I'm focused on trying to make a good chicken tikka masala I got all the spices and garam masala and everything!
That's pretty much all I'm up to today just video gaming and everyday life to break up the monotony! lol
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Where are you at, now? How are you enjoying it?I was busy trying to do as many sidequests as I can in Ch. 8 but there're alotta them. I looked up that you can't really go back to the open world once you set sail for Altissia going into Ch. 9, but there's a dog that lets you go back and visit? :shrug: I set sail anyway cause I figure I'll try to beat the game instead of lolly-gagging.
I don't really fawn over much video game girls but I guess I like Lunafreya cause she's a blonde and the way they made her face looks just normal she can look a little weird but I think that's just normal. Yeah, I've seen some clips of FF7R and it looks great. I usually like most FF girls but I thought FF7 was always missing a good blonde. Unless they count Cloud in a dress?
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The Atelier series, in particular, stands out to me as a low-stakes game that I'd probably dig, but there are so many of them I don't know where to begin.Before I got a PS4 Pro, I was playing a few last-minute JRPGs for the PS3 and Atelier was like caught my eye last-second lol, I enjoyed it a lot. I started with Atelier Rorona and just went in order by release date. I'm looking at the PS4 Atelier games and apparently Atelier Sophie/Atelier Sophie 2 is a good place to start. I'm thinking about picking up that game rn.
I'm pretty into PS4 JRPG gameplaying right now and I have a few titles I'm looking at to possibly get:
-ever heard of Undertale? It's kinda like Earthbound but even weirder
-FFVIIR I kinda wanna play this
-DQ11S this looks good
-Atelier Sophie 2 I just wanna cont my Atelier journey onto the PS4
I'm just kinda home alone. My dogs keep me company when I'm in the room doing exercises/yoga and stuff. I've been writing in a notebook a lot just my inane thoughts. I'm still doing my "staying awake" thing I kinda just take a nap whenever I feel I need to. I hate having a schedule or 24-hr. routine. It seems so systematic. I kinda just do a lot of stuff at night when it's actually cool and I don't feel zapped by the heat and I kinda stay inside when the sun's out during the day and just go out when I have to supervise and talk to the workers. I love that my dogs keep me company all the time. I notice they're starting to be more affectionate towards me especially the other one boy dog. He stays outside and guards the place while the girl stays in my room in case something happens and her barking will wake me up.
I'm trying to teach one of the maids the kinds of foods I like so she can start to make it herself. I'm focused on trying to make a good chicken tikka masala I got all the spices and garam masala and everything!
That's pretty much all I'm up to today just video gaming and everyday life to break up the monotony! lol